How to Use tournament in a Sentence

tournament

noun
  • She's an excellent tennis player who has won many tournaments.
  • The tournament means a lot to me.
    — Doug Ferguson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2026
  • It's been a strong run for this team so far in this tournament.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
  • His team was in the top four in the tournament’s last round.
    — Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The tournament is open to all ages, and there will be door prizes and awards.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • That wasn’t good for the tournament.
    — Bill Hancock, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2026
  • That tournament was ahead of its time in other ways too.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Ball has been due for a breakout game in this tournament.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2026
  • On the eve of the tournament, a row broke out over bonuses.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Bars might be the x-factor for all the teams in the tournament.
    — Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Roger would go out and kind of mess around right before the tournament.
    — Patrick McEnroe, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • This likely will come down to the play-in tournament.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
  • What's the best way to watch a fly fishing tournament?
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
  • The results of those league games were used to seed teams for the league tournament.
    — Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Madrid have won the tournament more than twice as many times as any other club.
    — Will Jeanes, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • For starters, this is the first knockout match of this year’s tournament.
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 28 June 2026
  • Yet some tournaments have stood out more than others.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The tournament was watched by a sellout crowd.
    — Elmira Aliieva, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2025
  • What’s at stake in the in-season tournament?
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Houston won the game and the tournament.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The action traces the arc of a single tournament over just a few days.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Reyna was named man of the match and best player of the tournament.
    — Michael Lewis, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • All that in just his first World Cup game of this tournament.
    — CBS News, 22 June 2026
  • The tournament is part of an effort to remove grass carp from the three lakes.
    — Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2025
  • In part, this is just a curse of timing for the tournaments being played.
    — The Athletic Tennis Staff, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The two winners move on to the next round of the tournament bracket.
    — Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Also, there are no more French men in the tournament.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 31 May 2026
  • The team will need to win that match to advance to the knockout rounds of this tournament.
    — Kellis Robinett, Kansas City Star, 21 June 2026
  • By the end of the tournament, his ice time started to dwindle.
    — Corey Pronman, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • France has one of the most fearsome attacks in the tournament.
    — Esteban Campanela, CNN Money, 7 June 2026

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